
By John P. Richardson,Tony Williams
ISBN-10: 0821422499
ISBN-13: 9780821422496
ISBN-10: 0821422502
ISBN-13: 9780821422502
An intrepid businessman, Shepherd grew to become president of Washington’s reduce condominium of delegates at twenty-seven. Garrulous and politically astute, he used each lever to cajole Congress to gain Peter L’Enfant’s imaginative and prescient for the capital. His tenure produced paved and graded streets, sewer platforms, timber, and gaslights, and remodeled the fetid Washington Canal into one of many city’s so much stately avenues. After bankrupting town, a chastened Shepherd left in 1880 to improve silver mines in western Mexico, the place he lived out his last twenty-two years.
In Washington, Shepherd labored on the confluence of race, celebration, sector, and concrete improvement, in a microcosm of the USA. decided to prevail in any respect expenses, he helped strength Congress to simply accept its accountability for upkeep of its stepchild, the nation’s capital city.
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